SC - long-life milk

[Sue Clemenger]

I imagine we'll "get over _our_ paranoia" when it's proven safe.  It's often in the news when Europeans balk at buying genetically altered foodstuffs, too.  Why take risks when you don't have to?
- --Maire from Artemisia

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Gwynydd commented:
> > It is ultra heat treated (UHT milk)and then packaged in containers lined with some sort of foil so that it's shelf-life is seriously extended.  I buy it instead of fresh milk because 1) it works out about 30 cents cheaper per litre if it is on special (which often happens) and 2) because it means there is always milk in the house.  I buy it in lots of about 12.  also, I found that, no matter how hard I tried, I could never seem to put milk money aside so we would run out of milk by the end of the fortnight.
>
> I thought you might be talking about irradiated milk. I wish the US
> would get over its paranoia about such food processing. Irradiation has
> less of an impact on the structure of milk than the UHT processing.
>
> However, as I don't see paranoia dissipating, particularly as our
> education system continues its downward spiral, I would be happy to see
> the UHT milk available in larger than juice-box size containers. It
> would be excellant for the purposes you give. About all we have in
> larger, sealed containers are quart(?) sized containers of "soy" milk.
>
> --
> Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
> **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****
> ============================================================================
>
> To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
> Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".
>
> ============================================================================